International Visiting Medical Student Course Catalog
28-490 RHEUMATOLOGY
Department
MEDICINE
Campus
Birmingham
Course Type(s)
Elective, Other AI-Ambulatory, Elective AI
Facility
UAB Medical Center
Course Director
MATTHEW MULLEN
Enrollment Limit
2
Contact
PATRICIA A TAYLOR
Enrollment Minimum
1
Email
ptaylor@uabmc.edu
Address
FOT 837, zip 3408
Phone
(205) 996-5602
Fax
(205) 934-4198
Prerequisites
Successful completion of Internal Medicine Clerkship. Medicine, Family Medicine, Neurology, Obstetrics/Gynecology, Pediatrics, Psychiatry, Surgery
Course Description
This course provides the student an opportunity to gain experience in an inpatient rheumatology consultation setting and ambulatory clinics. The student will work primarily with the faculty in outpatient rheumatology clinics at Cooper Green Hospital and Kirklin Clinic as well as inpatient rheumatology consultation service that provides consultative services within the entire UAB Medical Center complex, VA Hospital, and Cooper Green Hospital. Students will participate in the Division of Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology weekly Journal Club, Rheumatology Grand Rounds, and monthly clinic for children with rheumatic diseases. OBJECTIVES: (1) Improve the student's skill of joint examination, techniques of joint aspiration and injection, and the examination of joint fluid (2) Acquire knowledge related to therapeutics, laboratory and imaging evaluation, pain management, physical therapy employed in the care of patients with rheumatic disease
Where To Report
Office of course contact, FOT 837, unless ortherwise noted per email sent to student advising them to report to the clinic.
Requirements
See Course Description
Evaluation
Pass/Fail
Notes
Primer on Rheumatic Disease provided. Prior to matriculation date, call course contact to receive instructions on where to report.
This course accepts only visiting students from a UAB Affiliated school. Approval required.
